The Secret Hours

Resumen del libro

Monochrome is a busted flush - an inquiry into the misdeeds of the intelligence services, established by a vindictive prime minister but rendered toothless by a wily chief spook. For years it has ground away uselessly, interviewing witnesses with nothing to offer, producing a report with nothing to say, while the civil servants at its helm see their careers disappearing into a black hole. And then the OTIS file falls into their hands. What secrets does this hold that see a long-redundant spook being chased through Devon's green lanes in the dark? What happened in a newly reunified Berlin that someone is desperate to keep under wraps? And who will win the battle for the soul of the secret service - or was that decided a long time ago? Spies and pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flyers, time-servers and burn-outs ... They all have jobs to do in the daylight. But what they do in the secret hours reveals who they really are.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Mick Herronx{0026}lt;/B (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963) estudió en el Balliol College y reside en Oxford. Autor de reconocido prestigio en el género negro (finalista de los afamados premios Macavity, Barry, Shamus, y Gold Dagger y Ian Fleming Steel Dagger de la Crime Writers' Association), entre su amplia producción destaca la serie sobre Jackson Lamb y sus caballos lentos , de la que ya han aparecido ocho novelas, se han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares, se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas y triunfa en televisión con Gary Oldman y Kristin Scott Thomas como protagonistas. Salamandra ha publicado en español las cinco primeras entregas: x{0026}lt;I Caballos lentosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Leones muertos x{0026}lt;/I (Gold Dagger Award), x{0026}lt;I Tigres de verdadx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La Calle de los Espíasx{0026}lt;/I (Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award) y x{0026}lt;I Las reglas de Londresx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P